The quality of a financial market is driven by liquidity. Companies want to list on the NYSE, because that’s where the most financial investors in the world are located, and the thicker the market for investors, the better the valuations for companies. The NYSE has “problems” though — its closed most hours of the week, for instance, because humans are lazy, and it has a bunch of rules on what can be listed and how.
So blockchain! Blockchain solves this liquidity problem by allowing traders to op... Tags: Travel, Google, Asia, UK, New York, Sweden, Congress, Indonesia, Washington Post, Saudi Arabia, China, Southeast Asia, India, Softbank, New York City, Israel

The Executive Committee Presidential Search Team announced Tuesday that they have found “God’s candidate” to lead the Southern Baptist Convention’s administrative entity. The announcement comes nearly eleven months after the position of EC President was vacated by Frank Page.
I have no doubt that the search team has rightly prayed and sought God’s guidance throughout the process. They are, therefore, convinced that they have found the right person to lead the EC. EC Chairman Mike Stone said, “Go... Tags: Religion, God, EC, SBC, Executive Committee, Mike Stone, SBC Issues, EC EC, Executive Committee Presidential Search Team

Timing is the single most valuable skill of the modern economy, but I would argue its’s the least understood and also the least practiced.
Capitalism is fundamentally about timing, since market competition is about finding opportunities before others. When should you start a company? What company should you start? When should a VC invest? When should you join a company? When should you switch industries? When should you back a candidate for public office?
Every single one of our professional dec... Tags: Amazon, TC, Japan, Indonesia, California, La, China, Southeast Asia, Singapore, India, US, America, Los Angeles, Tech, Bloomberg, Infrastructure

I imagine there were some gasps last night among those in the Executive Committee meeting room when J.D. Greear laid out his plan for responding to the current abuse scandal which we’ve known about for a while and has been made national news by the Houston Chronicle. We are not used to this kind of bold and forceful leadership in response to charges of sexual abuse in the SBC.
There was also anger directed at J.D. among some who thought he went too far when he named several churches – churches t... Tags: Religion, Jesus, EC, Houston, Ed Young, Houston Chronicle, SBC, J D Greear, Executive Committee, Roman Catholic, Chronicle, SBC Issues, Greear

TechCrunch is launching something a little different today. We’re going to help startup founders find the best outside experts to work with — so you can build a better company, faster.
From lawyers to accountants to executive coaches and a dozen more categories, the mesh network of service providers in Silicon Valley and other startup ecosystems is a vital part of how companies succeed.
But many early-stage founders don’t even know that this sort of help exists. Or maybe, you think you don’t nee... Tags: TC, US, Tech, Silicon Valley, EC, Lawyers, Daniel McKenzie, Danny Crichton, Henry Pickavet, Verified Experts, Startup Law, Cynthia Hess, Yvonne Leow

The Court of Appeal has confirmed in a strong judgment that an air traffic management decision amounts to an extraordinary circumstance within the meaning of Regulation (EC) No.261/2004. Tags: UK, News, Court of appeal, EC

Three cities, three dead urban unicorn renewal projects.
In just the past few days, we’ve had Foxconn renege on Wisconsin, Amazon renege on NYC, and . Each followed the Anna Karenina principle that every unhappy economic development deal is unhappy in its own way: for Foxconn, it was trade tariffs and slowing iPhone sales; for Amazon, it was populist protests plus the usual NYC corruption; for GE, it was the reality of looking at a mirror and finding that you’re staring at a dumpster fire.
Yet,... Tags: Amazon, New York, Ge, Minnesota, Government, China, Boston, India, Softbank, Tech, Policy, Wisconsin, SEC, Silicon Valley, EC, Flickr

The EC has issued an EU-wide recall of the Safe-KID-One children's smartwatch marketed by ENOX Group over concerns that the device leaves data such as location history, phone and serial numbers vulnerable to hacking Tags: News, Eu, United States, EC, Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, ENOX Group

The European Union’s political institutions have reached agreement over new rules designed to boost transparency around online platform businesses and curb unfair practices to support traders and other businesses that rely on digital intermediaries for discovery and sales.
The European Commission proposed a regulation for fairness and transparency in online platform trading last April. And late yesterday the European Parliament, Council of the EU and Commission reached a political deal on ... Tags: Google, Amazon, Android, Facebook, Ecommerce, Europe, Instagram, Ebay, Google Search, Tech, Eu, European Union, E-commerce, Search Engines, Competition, Commission

TechCrunch is launching a new format for Extra Crunch members, called the EC-1. Modeled after the Form S-1 filing that late-stage startups submit to the SEC as part of the IPO process, EC-1s are authoritative, deep analyses into growth-stage startups.
Through extensive interviews and research, an EC-1 acts as a case study for entrepreneurs and startup executives to learn from a company’s journey as well as a thorough analysis for industry observers and public market investors eager to understand... Tags: TC, Facebook, Tech, SEC, EC, Patreon, Peckham, Danny Crichton, Graphtreon, Eric Peckham, EC-1, Patreon EC

Can Patreon become a powerful, multi-billion-dollar company at the heart of the global media and entertainment industry? It’s founders and investors certainly believe so.
In this Extra Crunch EC-1, I dove into Patreon’s founding story, product, business model, and competition. Now I want to dissect the foundational thesis of where Patreon could unlock massive economic value. If it turns out they got the thesis wrong, tactical and product details won’t save it.
As I see it, Patreon’s thesis in... Tags: TC, Tech, EC, Jack Conte, Patreon, Conte, Bryce Durbin, Wyatt Jenkins, EC-1

At nearly six years old, Patreon has gone from startup to king of membership. Now an established leader in an industry that’s been flipped on its head, Patreon’s path has been anything but predictable — peppered with its share of milestones, mishaps, pivots, champions, and critics — and offers invaluable insights for founders, investors, creatives, or those looking to make sense of the new media landscape.
Since we’ve probably read almost every word written on Patreon as part for our “unde... Tags: Amazon, TC, Instagram, Tech, Ceo, Web Browsers, Php, Ben Thompson, David Marcus, Editor, Musicians, Sam Altman, Alexis Ohanian, EC, Jack Conte, Thrive Capital

Patreon provides business infrastructure to independent content creators: people making videos, music, podcasts, paintings, comics, games, magazines and other forms of media for fans online. It helps them turn the small subset of superfans within their broader fan base into paying monthly patrons and manage relationships with those patrons across the web. Patreon is angling to become the dominant platform for creators to build these membership businesses, a position from which it could expand... Tags: TC, New York City, San Francisco, Tech, Atlanta, Netflix, EC, Hulu, Jack Conte, San Antonio, Patreon, Conte, Josh Constine, Tom Boruta, Memberful, EC-1

Jose Pontes of EV Volumes and CleanTechnica has crunched some numbers and found that the Tesla Model 3 is now the best selling plug-in vehicle in the world. "In fact, the Model 3 was approximately 55,000 sales above the #2 BAIC EC-Series, an extremely popular Chinese model," CleanTechnica reports. "The Model 3 gobbled 7% of the plug-in vehicle market, while the #2 EC-Series and #3 Nissan LEAF each had 4%." From the report: After those top three, as the chart shows, the Tesla Model S and Model X ... Tags: Tech, Tesla, EC, Nissan, Mitsubishi, Cleantechnica, Jose Pontes, BAIC EC

EC Comics and Hivemind team up for new film & TV partnership
Hivemind today announced a new partnership with William M. Gaines Agent, Inc., the proprietors of EC Comics, for a number of film and television projects based on the tremendously influential, often controversial, comic book publisher William M. Gaines.
One of the partnership’s first endeavors will be Weird Fantasy, a new television show inspired by the shocking and subversive sci-fi/fantasy series that mixed together genre storyte... Tags: Amazon, TV, New York, London, Movies, Congress, Horror, America, Netflix, TV News, EC, Gaines, EC Comics, Movie News, John Landis An American Werewolf, Hivemind

Wally Wood
Weird Science v2 #19, 1953 - Two surprisingly sophisticated tales are beautiful drawn by two of EC's best artists. Wally Wood chronicles the problems of a 500 year old man who still appears youthful. The artist takes care in the many fine details of the story, similar to his shocking yet unrelated cover design. Al Williamson's story of the discovery of an ancient well on Mars is [Author: Ted Ignacio] Tags: Comics, Mars, EC, Ted Ignacio, Al Williamson, Wally Wood

In its latest monitoring report of a voluntary Code of Conduct on illegal hate speech, which platforms including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube signed up to in Europe back in 2016, the European Commission has said progress is being made on speeding up takedowns but tech firms are still lagging when it comes to providing feedback and transparency around their decisions.
Tech companies are now assessing 89% of flagged content within 24 hours, with 72% of content deemed to be illegal hate speech bei... Tags: Google, Social, Facebook, Twitter, Europe, UK, Instagram, Youtube, Germany, Censorship, Social Media, Tech, Eu, European Union, Snapchat, Artificial Intelligence